Uggh…That Ain’t Country (A Pictorial Revue Vol. 1)
If you’ve found you’re eyeballs affixed to these very words, you’ve likely found yourself at some point trying to explain that you like country, but not that type of country. Once certain artists get to the very top of country pop, they seem to lose all self-awareness and begin to make fools of themselves, and by proxy, the genre that holds the same name as the music we love. It never ceases that when quotation mark “country” takes center stage, true country fans get embarrassed. He are some of the worst offenses.
Ironically, KISS is still the most country band on the stage. And where is that one dude’s hand? (with Lady Antebellum at the 2012 ACM Awards).
Don’t panic folks! No endangered cheetah’s were injured in the making of Shania’s outfit, just the integrity of country music!
A hip-hop artist rapping with Jason Aldean at the 2011 CMT Awards? That’s Ludacris! (hardy har, har!!)
Nothing says country like suspending yourself over a stadium of 70,000 people. Eat your heart out Sandy Duncan! (Garth at Texas Stadium circa 1993).
Just take a moment to sit back and really contemplate what the dude on the left is wearing. (Taylor Swift)
Does it really matter if Tim McGraw was trying to be funny or serious? (for the launching of “McGraw” cologne)
I have no idea what is going on here, or what is supposed to be going on. And frankly, I’m not sure I want to know. (Sugarland)
Yeah, there were no warning signs before Blake Shelton’s recent quotes. None!
January 28, 2013 @ 10:22 am
love this. Keep calling them out.
January 28, 2013 @ 10:57 am
omg is that really Shania? She looks awful with that hair color. It doesn’t even look like her.
January 28, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
Yeah. I wondered the same thing. She looks awful. I though it was a picture of Amy Winehouse’s last performance.
January 28, 2013 @ 11:11 am
Sugarland is so embarassing!
…and Jason Aldean just has that “punch me” look all the time.
January 28, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
No, that ain’t country…..***That’s Entertainment*** Looks like VEGAS Baby!
(sigh, no wonder I don’t watch any of that crap on TV or buy tickets to arena concerts)
January 28, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
” I have no idea what is going on here, or what is supposed to be going on. And frankly, I”™m not sure I want to know.”
It looks to me like she is ripping some major ass
January 28, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
Here’s where we need a picture of Dusty (King George) saying “I’m tired of all the smoke and the lights. I just want to be up there with me and my guitar. I ain’t gonna be no dancin chicken”
January 29, 2013 @ 1:02 am
i’m all for this lol.
Monday Tiddy Bits
January 28, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
[…] Ha!  I giggled at this. A lot.  […]
January 28, 2013 @ 7:27 pm
I would pay big money to hear my grandaddy’s take on that dude’s get-up in the TS picture
January 28, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
I already hated Lady A and Sugarland, can’t get over how alternative they sound but yet apparently they’re country. Can’t quite hear it, guess I am just an old fart jackass at the age of 26.
January 29, 2013 @ 3:31 am
What’s wrong with the last picture? Blake is wearing a standard suit and is joking around with a colleague and friend?
January 29, 2013 @ 8:25 am
I’ve never watched an episode of The Voice, but Cee Lo might be the only one that I have some fondness for musically. Thought his “Fuck You” was a cool classic soul song. Now, if it was a picture of him and that Maroon 5 guy…
January 29, 2013 @ 8:28 am
Yeah Jack, I agree. I don’t like that style of music, but that guy is talented and can really evoke that classic soul sound. No doubt.
January 29, 2013 @ 10:28 am
I hate Maroon 5 more than I hate pop country. And I hate pop country.
January 30, 2013 @ 5:01 pm
I never did undterstand that. Blake always wore suits on the show, he never did represent country on the show, of course now I know why.
January 29, 2013 @ 9:56 pm
When people see my boots and ask if I”™m into country I always say, “Country is my most favorite music and my most hated music”. I”™d rather listen to gangster rap than pop country! Keep up the good work here. I love what your doing!
January 30, 2013 @ 2:06 am
Another case-in-point? The album cover to Big & Rich’s “Hillbilly Jedi”.
Quite likely the single LEAST “country” album cover of ALL TIME! -__-
February 1, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
Truth.
February 3, 2013 @ 7:10 am
So true, all around … Any time I make a comment about the terrible state of country radio, someone will invariably make the comment “I thought you loved country music?,” and I have to explain that, yes, that’s precisely why country radio is unlistenable!
February 5, 2013 @ 5:06 am
You have to wonder if when they say stupid things like this if they even know what real country sounds like or if they even care. I quit listening to “radio country” in about the 1998 to 2000 range. Now I listen to mainly bluegrass and the country that I remember growing up that actually had integrity from the early to mid-90’s and back.
February 7, 2013 @ 10:27 pm
So Taylor’s new single has been announced, it’s “22”. Now I don’t know if this is solely for pop, or if this will also serve as the next single in country. Interesting article here:
http://musiccityencore.com/taylor-swift-new-single-sparks-country-vs-pop-debate/
February 7, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
I would also guess this will be the song she will sing at the Grammys where she’s scheduled to open the show.
Interesting.
November 1, 2013 @ 8:02 am
Be sure…your Vegas comeback will find you out.
Bedbugs are making a comeback, too.
It’s back to the desert when your career goes totally adrift.
“Buck up, Suck up…when you mess up”.
The triumphant gaudy Vegas comeback….gloriously cheesy. Backup singers are called in to augment “thin vocals”.
The Vegas comeback is a Hallmark self help foofaraw. There is no guarantee that you will be “Still the One” when you leave the desert.
“Today is Your Day” is a stinkeroo. “Just go out there and give it your best….”
With every passing year, the ground gets colder and weirder. When you’re stripped bare….oh, I’m so happy to reconnect with ‘my fans’….
The ‘fans’ realize that they were in love with a created persona.